Because it worked so well for Seattle.
And soon, for California.
How do you lose jobs? Establish a high minimum wage.
Why doesn’t this “group” just make up the difference themselves and send a separate check to all minimum wage employees. These busybody commies should not be telling employers how to run their businesses. If they want to pay minimum wage employers more money, they can start their own businesses. This is Nazi and commie stuff.
JMHo
Democracy is 20million looters telling 10,000 business owners how to run their businesses.
I wonder when McCoon will get on board with this.
Ya cant talk sense to these people-and that includes some on this site.
We have a business market in regs to labor in this country. Which means, there is an over supply of labor. Yet the assholes want to let millions more of illegals in to flood the labor force even MORE. Then, they welcome the mass deportation of manufacturing jobs out of the country to do what? To take advantage of even more cheap labor.
When the supply of labor goes down, the market reacts and wages goes up.
Trump is the only one who understands this. He and a relative few.
I heard once that the ones who want this know that it will make many unemployed. That is the goal, more people on the dole. Business out of business.
I see these minimum wage laws as an unconstitutional taking of private property.
Minimum wage laws are just one more way socialists forcibly confiscate money from earners and direct it to those who haven’t earned it.
When the government forces a business to pay $12 an hour for a job worth $7 an hour the extra $5 hasn’t been earned by the employee.
It is wealth a business or entrepreneur has earned but is forced to redistribute, to give away, under threat of punishment by the government.
The whiners, aided by the federal government, try to use minimum wage laws to convert businesses and private enterprise ventures into just another wealth redistribution mechanism.
To use them as an extension of government to implement social policies.
Minimum wages are really a way the government co-opts freedom and free enterprise by dictating what a business can, or has to do, with its capital and profits.
Instead of the government taking more money in the form of taxes and handing it out to people who haven’t earned it, they order businesses to hand it out directly by using their power to set higher minimum wages.
Simple; just use the same inflation-rate that the US Govt used to calculate our COLA raises for SS and Military Pensions - ZERO!!!
If they use any other number, they are talking out of both sides of their mouths.